Bridgeport leaves school election date untouched

The benefits and drawbacks of fiddling with the Bridgeport-Spaulding Community School District's election date are too uncertain to mess with it now, Board of Education members decided.

Administrators wanted to attach the school elections to primary or regular municipal ballots to save money, but possible state legislation to alter school ballots tripped up the plan.

They could not have waited to see what legislators did. A vote on state-mandated school election dates likely won't come until January or February, Superintendent Desmon Daniel cq said -- long after the state-mandated Dec. 31 deadline to change next year's election.